common consent
Example Sentences
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Firstly, De Ligt was, by common consent, United's best defender until a back injury ruled him out of the West Ham game.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025
He’s so insufferably priggish that at school his name, William Orser, has by common consent been elided to the nonexistent word “Worser,” just to drive him crazy.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022
A new film by Julian Schnabel, “At Eternity’s Gate,” with Willem Dafoe playing the man we refer to, by common consent, as “poor Vincent,” captures this beauty.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018
Angela Merkel is, by common consent, the titan of European politics.
From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2017
By common consent they stopped and crouched together.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
